1st Edition

Hannah Arendt

By Simon Swift Copyright 2009
192 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Hannah Arendt's work offers a powerful critical engagement with the cultural and philosophical crises of mid-twentieth-century Europe. Her idea of the banality of evil, made famous after her report on the trial of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, remains controversial to this day. In the face of 9/11 and the 'war on terror', Arendt's work on the politics of freedom and the rights of man... Read more

Why Arendt?

1 Biography, Theory and Politics

2 Thinking and Society

3 Acting

4 Labour, Work and Modernism

5 Judging: From Kant to Eichmann

6 Anti-Semitism

7 Imperialism, Racism and Nation

8 Totalitarianism

Coda: Evil

After Arendt

Biography

Simon Swift